Trailokyavijaya (, Japanese: ''Gōzanze Myō-ō'';

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: ''Hangsamse Myeongwang;''

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwest South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural ...

: त्रैलोक्यविजय) is a Buddhist wrathful deity and is considered to be a form of the bodhisattva,

Vajrapani (Sanskrit; Pali: Vajirapāṇi, 'holder of the thunderbolt', lit. meaning, "Vajra in ishand") is one of the earliest-appearing bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism. The personification of Indra, the King of the Devas in the Hindu order, he is t ...

. He plays an important role in the seventh-century text, the Tattvasaṃgraha Tantra where Vajrapani takes the role of Trailokavijaya.

History

The worship of Trailokavijaya in

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began following the transmission of various texts into the region including the Tattvasaṃgraha Tantra and the

Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Sūtra The ''Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Sūtra'' (''Vairocana, Vairocana’s Awakening Sutra'', ), also known as the ''Mahāvairocana Tantra'' (; ; also known as 大日經 :zh-tw:大日經, ''Da Ri Jing'') is an important Vajrayana Buddhist text composed ...

which were translated into Chinese by the monk,

Amoghavajra Amoghavajra ( ; , 705–774) was a prolific translator who became one of the most politically powerful Buddhist monks in Chinese history and is acknowledged as one of the Patriarchs of Chinese Esoteric Buddhism and Shingon Buddhism. Life There ...

at some point in the latter part of the eighth century. These texts were later transmitted to

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Iconographic representation

Lord Trailokyavijaya was born from the blue syllable, Hûm. He is blue, with four faces, and eight arms. His primary face expresses a love fury, the right, wrathful compassion, disgust in the left, and behind, that of heroism. His main hands bear the bell and vajra, his chest says ''Vajra-hum-Kara''; his three right hands hold (in descending order) a sword, the elephant hook, and an arrow; the three left hands hold a bow, lace, and a chakram. He carries, among other adornments, a garland made of a cord of Buddhas, is being developed as identical to him, that has (according fingers) magic gesture after touching fists back to back, attach two small chain-like fingers. The formula is "Om", etc.

History

Iconographic representation

Mantra

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